Signs Of The Times…

Fights between schoolboys and a gang at a bus stop outside Marks and Spencer left one boy with a gash to the head.

Blood stains were still visible on the pavement outside the shop entrance today.

Lovely…

Senior staff from the school spent this morning visiting shops along the road to apologise for the disruption, which saw the street cordoned off by police.

A nice gesture, unfortunately marred by the headteacher then grousing about having to do it:

Headteacher Jeffrey Risbridger told News Shopper: “ I feel because it’s my pupils, clearly I need to go and make my peace with the shopkeepers.

“But there comes a point, doesn’t there, when you say, how can a school be responsible for its pupils three hours after the end of a school day.”

If you feel as though what they do out of school doesn’t reflect on you, why do this? Have you been forced to do it?

The headteacher said: “This was more serious because a child was injured. But there are scuffles outside every school. That’s the nature of children.”

Really? If so, what does that say about our society today?

Oh, certainly, intra-school rumbles are nothing new. There were fights between boys (rarely girls) from rival schools when I was a schoolgirl, but they rarely involved police, and never ambulances or weapons…